Eugene Melnyk, owner of the Ottawa Senators, addresses close to 100 kids on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Dec. 10, 2017JEAN LEVAC/POSTMEDIA

HEATLEY? NO WAY

To the Sun sports writer who wrote in the Saturday Sun that Dany Heatley should have been invited to play in the Alumni game, I say “give your head a shake.”

He goes on to state that Alexei Yashin, who did a lot worse by holding out for a year, was invited, so Heater should have been also.

When you look at all the classy guys that were on the ice last night, there is no way Yashin should have been there.

DAN GAUVREAU OTTAWA(Point taken.)

MOVE WHERE?

Senators’ owner Eugene Melnyk says he’s not selling the team, but perhaps will move to where his asset has more promise.

If and when this happens, I can’t blame him. Ottawa has been known to be fickle supporting its sports teams. Ticket, parking and concession stand prices contribute toward attendance issues. The CTC location is another drawback.

It’s a shame hockey, as all sport, has turned into a political and business arena.

Gone are the days when that arena was affordable and less focused on life’s evil: Money.

It would be Ottawa’s loss if the Senators were to move. Where?

SCOTT THOMPSON OTTAWA(It’s a sad state of affairs, no matter how you look at it.)

QUIT COMPLAININ’

I, like thousands of other Ottawa hockey fans surely are, are just sick of Eugene Melnyk’s whining and would love him to sell the team.

No other owner in pro sports cries about anything and everything like Melnyk. So he should sell and get outta town.

It’s a wonder Melnyk has any employees at all. Oh, and by the way, don’t let the door hit you on the way outta town.

JIM HAND KANATA(That sounds like a net loss for the city.)

MELNYK’S RIGHT

It seems Ottawa fans just love to dump all over Eugene Melnyk. However they have short memories, if it wasn’t for the Senators flamboyant owner purchasing the club they probably would have relocated years ago.

Melnyk does not want to move the team but he is a businessman, and if supporters of the team don’t fill the seats than he will have to move on, it is plain economics.

Ottawa has always been a city that supports its teams as long as they are winners, but hand them a few losing seasons and they stay away in droves.

Personally I would not blame him if he packed up and moved northward to Quebec City where they are true hockey fans.

STEPHEN FLANAGAN OTTAWA(The Sens had a heck of a season last year – so what gives?)

WE WANT YOUR STORIES

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